Student talks with academic advisor

Foundations of Excellence: Improving the first-year experience

Sept. 4, 2018

CU Boulder embarked on this initiative a year ago to improve the campus experience for all first-year students. The initiative has now entered the second of two phases, Buffs First Forward.

Aerial view of the CU Boulder campus

Financial Futures aligns financial resources with mission

Aug. 14, 2018

CU Boulder is undertaking a new approach to engaging in strategic financial alignment, continuing to transition the campus to a total funds approach that supports its bold initiatives.

Vice Chancellor for Infrastructure and Sustainability David Kang

From VC Kang: Strategic Facilities Visioning entering deep dive phase

Aug. 9, 2018

Strategic Facilities Visioning is a collaborative yearlong initiative that will engage stakeholders across campus to create a framework for facilities decision-making for the next 30 years.

Aerial view of the CU Boulder campus

Diversity authoring committee moves toward fall draft plan to make excellence inclusive

June 26, 2018

The co-chairs of the Diversity, Inclusion and Academic Excellence Plan Authoring Committee report the committee is meeting with key leaders in preparation to begin drafting the plan next month.

Main campus is seen from above with the Flatirons in the background.

Authoring committee for Diversity, Inclusion and Academic Excellence Plan begins work

May 24, 2018

The committee charged with authoring CU Boulder’s Diversity, Inclusion and Academic Excellence Plan has been formed and is beginning its work.

Orrie Gartner

Academic Futures video: Unpacking ideas for staff success

May 9, 2018

In the Academic Futures video series, subcommittee member Orrie Gartner asks for campus feedback on ideas that include reimagining staff's role, meeting the most basic needs of staff, providing flexible career paths and support for growth and more.

Juan Garcia Oyervides

Academic Futures video: Unpacking ideas for graduate student success

May 8, 2018

In the Academic Futures video series, Juan Garcia Oyervides asks for campus feedback on ideas that include improving the academic, professional and social climate for graduate students and more.

Aerial view of the CU Boulder campus

Creating a strategic facilities vision for the campus

May 2, 2018

David Kang last year announced a strategic facilities visioning process, an endeavor to inform the next 10-year campus master plan and create a holistic approach to meeting campus space needs, both in the near term and for decades to come.

Academic advisor speaks with a student in her office

Foundations of Excellence: A holistic look at our students' first-year experience

May 2, 2018

An initiative launched last fall to improve students' campus experiences, this self-study and improvement-planning process represents a partnership among several units and has involved over 100 students, faculty and staff members.

Valerie Otero teaches a class

Academic Futures: The year of visioning boldly

May 2, 2018

A three-year process, Academic Futures in its first year asked the community to bring forth ideas, without constraints or resource concerns, about what CU Boulder might become and how we might transform teaching, learning, creative work and scholarship.

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